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Even though President Obama leaves office today with the leaders of ISIS and al-Qaeda still alive and operational, efforts underway by the U.S. military's Joint Special Operations Command and the CIA may give Trump an early opportunity to take out at least one of the terrorist leaders, Abu Bakr

The State Department designated Osama bin Laden ’s son, Hamza bin Laden, a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” on Thursday. Bin Laden, born in 1989, was announced as an official member of al-Qaida, the terrorist group his father founded, in 2015. Since then, al-Qaida audio messages featuring

U.S.-backed Iraqi and Kurdish forces press forward in their efforts to release Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq , from its two-year long occupation by ISIS. At the same time, U.S. officials have indicated that a second front against the terror group’s administrative capital in Syria -- Raqqa

Fifteen years ago this month, then-President George W. Bush responded to 9/11 by publicly placing 22 top terrorists on an FBI most wanted list. In the decade and half since, more of the original list of fugitives have been killed than caught, while several remain on the run — including two senior

The Pentagon has confirmed that an airstrike in Syria targeted Abu Faraj al-Masri, a prominent al-Qaeda member who also formed part of the leadership of the Syrian rebel group formerly known as the al-Nusra Front. "U.S. forces conducted an airstrike today near Idlib, Syria, targeting Egyptian

The leader of al-Qaeda appeared in a video online today, ahead of the 15th anniversary of Sept. 11, calling the deadly attack a "slap" to the U.S. and its allies. "We mark in these days the passage of nearly 15 years since the blessed invasions in Washington, New York and Pennsylvania," Ayman

Richard Clarke was the national crisis manager for the White House on 9/11. He served as national coordinator for security and counterterrorism in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He has been an ABC News national security consultant since 2004. In the days after the attacks of

President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are not the "founders" of the terrorist organization ISIS, as recently claimed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. That dubious distinction goes to the group's mysterious current leader and to a petty thug turned jihadi killer. ISIS, in its

Just ahead of the fourteenth anniversary of al Qaeda's 9/11 attacks on the U.S., the leader of the terrorist group took aim in an angry speech at a mortal enemy -- but not American “crusaders” this time. Rather, the object of his tirade was the leader of ISIS in a declaration of war that will

The head of al Qaeda , Ayman al-Zawahiri , purportedly has published a new audio message online, after months of silence and growing speculation that all is not well with the terror leader. The nearly 10-minute tape first features a clip of Osama bin Laden speaking and then a man, supposedly